Janine
Barely present in Poland: only 66 women carry it, and no girl has been given it since 2000. An English and French form built on the Hebrew for "god is gracious", the same root behind Polish Janina.
Janine Pronunciation
Janine is pronounced yah-NYEE-ne (/jaˈɲinɛ/).
What Janine means
Where Janine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Janine begins in Hebrew, in the name Yohanan, which meant "God is gracious." French speakers reshaped the masculine John into Jean, then Jeanne, and Janine appeared as a softer feminine form. English families picked it up across the twentieth century, which is why it reads as both French and English today.
Poland runs the same root down a different branch. The masculine Jan gives the feminine Janina, and from there come the diminutives Janka and Jasia. Say Jasia and you hear a small girl, someone still learning to print her name on the top line of a school register. Janine sits a little apart from that group, the French cousin who visits.
The meaning held. Whether written Janine or Janina, the name still says that God is gracious, bóg jest łaskawy.
How many people are named Janine
1 in 341573 women in Poland is named Janine. 66 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4474 among female names.
Janine as a middle name
Janine is a first name for 66 women in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 978th, between Ita (49) and Kimberly (49).
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#976 Estelle49
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#977 Ita49
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#978 Janine49
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#979 Kimberly49
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#980 Kwiryna49